[codemac]

I disagree, because there are SO many examples of companies and products that do this. Basically every data storage company, every networking company, every database company (meaning they wrote the OS)..

Not to mention wasabi is a transpiler! It took VB-ish stuff and turned it into a few target languages. This is senior year undergrad complexity that they used for 10 years.

The negativity on this post is astounding.

[krallja]

Writing a compiler sounds scary to some people. It's not scary. The only compilers training I have is a senior-year undergraduate course, and quite a lot of that was learning all the different ways to write parsers. Wasabi uses a LL(k) recursive descent parser, and you don't have to know what that means to be able to work on it. I've never even read the Dragon book; we used Cooper & Torczon "Engineering a Compiler" instead.